Question follow-through · 14246
Plastics: Consumption and Production
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 9584 on Plastics: Treaties, what level of (a) production and (b) consumption of primary plastic polymers is sustainable.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 13 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 October 2024 to Question 9584 on Plastics: Treaties, what level of (a) production and (b) consumption of primary plastic polymers is sustainable.
19 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
The UK supports measures under the proposed Global Plastics Treaty to reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels, and the Government recognises that further work will be needed to establish what those sustainab...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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